Healing from Loss

“𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒅. 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒅. 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆.” – A Very Fine Home with Jordan Pederson

We spend so much energy on trying to ‘heal’ yet, what if we took some time to sit in our sorrow and embrace it. What if we looked deeply into our pain to figure out how we are changing from it. What if we used our pain to touch others in their pain.

If we simply heal (or hide and deny our sorrow) we cannot use the very pain and scars that are a testimony to God’s faithfulness.

Wait! Your heart may be saying, “God wasn’t faithful to me! My child died even through I prayed so hard”.

As a loss mama, I understand that. We prayed, begged, maybe even bargained for earthly healing, didn’t we? Yet God allowed our children to enter the gates of heaven instead. Does that mean he doesn’t love us? Does that mean he forsook us? Or that he is not a good and loving God?

No, it doesn’t.

Instead, it means we won’t always understand the whys this side of heaven. Yes he could have given our children a finite earthly healing. He could have temporarily postponed their earthly death. But God doesn’t view our earthly lives as we do. He views them as a passing moment on the way to our eternal home. A place where we can be with him. His plan for our world was that we would never experience death and separation, pain, and sorrow. Rather, he planned eternal life with us and our children. That life is now only achieved through the salvation offered from Jesus.

The very sorrows we carry, he too carries. God gave his most precious son so that we can live with him eternally in heaven. He understands our devastating pain of loss.

I pray you will allow him to carry you as you experience loss, leaning into him and his comfort.

~Telling Christ’s story {Because of Millie}

︵‿︵‿୨☆୧‿︵‿︵ ☆｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆　｡･:*:･ﾟ★ I still believe in Millie’s Miracle ☆｡･:*:･ﾟ Hebrews 11:1 ｡･:*:･ﾟ☆ ︵‿︵‿୨☆୧‿︵‿︵